About the Authors

Hongming Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongming Liu, Guiyu Lou

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital & Institute of Surgery Research, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Guiyu Lou

Contributed equally to this work with: Hongming Liu, Guiyu Lou

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Chongyi Li

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Xiaodong Wang

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America, Chongqing Biomean Technology Co., Ltd, Chongqing, China

Arthur I. Cederbaum

Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York, United States of America

Lixia Gan

ganlixia@yahoo.com (LG); xiebin313@126.com (BX)

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Bin Xie

ganlixia@yahoo.com (LG); xiebin313@126.com (BX)

Affiliation Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Daping Hospital & Institute of Surgery Research, The Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BX LG. Performed the experiments: HL GL CL XW. Analyzed the data: BX LG HL GL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: BX LG AC.